The Friar laugh’d when he had heard all this: “Now, Dame,” quoth he, “so have I joy and bliss, This is a long preamble of a tale.” And when the Sompnour heard the Friar gale, 2010 “Lo,” quoth this Sompnour, “Goddë’s armës two, A friar will intermete 2011 him evermo’: Lo, goodë men, a fly and eke a frere Will fall in ev’ry dish and eke mattére. What speak’st thou of perambulatioún? 2012 What? amble or trot; or peace, or go sit down: Thou lettest 2013 our disport in this mattére.” “Yea, wilt thou so, Sir Sompnour?” quoth the Frere; “Now by my faith I shall, ere that I go, Tell of a Sompnour such a tale or two, That all the folk shall laughen in this place.” “Now do, else, Friar, I beshrew 2014 thy face,”